The robot was custom-made for the project and combines high-end components like a 3D laser scanner or lidar developed by Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo with broad use of plastic to make ...

Everyday Robots was the brainchild of X, Alphabet’s “moonshot” research and development factory which in recent years has been forced to shutter projects that were deemed economically unviable.

Forget about robots taking our jobs. They could be standing right beside us on the unemployment line. The Everyday Robots department, which was one of the divisions shuttered by Google CEO Sundar ...

Alphabet has another subsidiary, Intrinsic, that is working on industrial robots, and layoffs there were limited to about 20 percent of its staff. “In a home, you can't just put magnetic strips ...

Alphabet says its Everyday Robot team at X is now testing its prototype machines in Google’s offices. The bots are performing light custodial work as Alphabet slowly pursues its goal of building ...

As we reported in our 2016 Google preview, Alphabet's robot division is in a bit of a mess. The division was started inside Google by Android cofounder Andy Rubin, ...

A two-legged robot capable of climbing stairs—and even cleaning them—has been developed by a subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet. The unnamed robot, built by Japanese robotics firm ...